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Russian attacks on nine regions of Ukraine caused emergency power outages for hundreds of thousands of households and damaged numerous homes, wounding at least 15 people, officials said on Friday, as civilian casualties from Moscow’s full-scale invasion climb steeply.

Russia detained a Swedish national and a Japanese journalist within days of one another as former president Dmitry Medvedev called on Moscow to replenish its “exchange pool” of Western citizens to trade for Russians held abroad.

Russian drones are suspected of sinking a cargo ship and leaving chemical tankers ablaze near the Black Sea coasts of Bulgaria and Romania, respectively. The latest attacks mean that at least seven ships have been attacked in the exclusive economic zones of NATO member countries—and even within Romania’s territorial waters if Russian involvement is confirmed…

Moscow will not succeed in forcing Ukraine to surrender through a deal with Washington, as Europe will continue to back Kyiv, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas told Euronews in an exclusive interview.

Suspected Russian drone attacks sank a cargo ship and forced the evacuation of another vessel within two dozen miles of the coast of Bulgaria in the Black Sea on October 13. The latest attacks mean that five ships have been attacked in the exclusive economic zones of NATO member countries—spurring requests for NATO to redeploy…

Despite the expansion of Starlink and other communications satellite services, most of the world’s Internet traffic still travels through subsea cables crisscrossing the ocean floors. Those fiber-optic cables coexist with a network of oil and gas pipelines and submarine power cables—and all these crucial links connecting countries and continents now face growing sabotage risks as…

NATO’s top general has unveiled a new war plan for countering a Russian attack on members of the alliance, embedding lessons learned from the front lines in Ukraine.

Russia’s parliament will vote later this month on a budget that allocates a record 44% of federal spending to defence and security — double the share for social programmes — as the Kremlin presses ahead with a fifth year of all-out war in Ukraine.

Rescue workers recovered three bodies from the rubble of a four-storey residential building in Kharkiv’s western Kholodnohirskyi district, where an entire section of the block had collapsed. The attack also damaged a five-storey building in the Shevchenkivskyi district. A ground-floor bank and several vehicles caught fire, while windows were blown out in nearby apartment blocks.

Maria Tadeo reports from the Warsaw Security Forum, where NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Alexus Grynkewich, has warned Russia that the alliance is ready to deter any attack, and where Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders say Moscow is not serious about an energy ceasefire.